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Teaching ‘Correct’ Attitudes: an Anglican Emissary to Sweden and Finland in 1944

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2004

HANNA-MAIJA KETOLA
HANNA-MAIJA KETOLA
Affiliation:
Department of Church History, University of Helsinki, PO Box 33, FIN-00014 Helsingin yliopisto, Finland; e-mail: ketola@teologi.helsinki.fi
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Abstract

In autumn 1944, the British Ministry of Information sent one of its officials, the Revd Herbert M. Waddams, to Sweden and Finland. His task was to collect information about opinions in church circles in both countries and to try to persuade them to a more favourable attitude towards the Allies, especially the Soviet Union. Sweden had remained neutral throughout the war and Finland had just made peace with the Allies. Waddams's memoranda on the trip reveal how the assessment of the international situation by a representative of a British government ministry differed from that of churchmen in Sweden and Finland.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 55 , Issue 1 , January 2004 , pp. 75 - 101
Copyright
© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

ÅAB, GOR=Åbo Akademie Bibliotek, G. O. Rosenqvists arkiv; KA=National Archives, Helsinki; EG=Eelis Gulin papers; AL=Aleksi Lehtonen papers; LP=Lambeth Palace, London; LPL=Lambeth Palace Library, London; ULA, EEA=Uppsala Landsarkiv, Erling Eidems arkiv
An earlier version of this article was published in Finnish in 1997 in the yearbook of the Finnish Society of Church History. It was translated into English by Jyri Kokkonen and the language revised by Michael COXLIC. THEOL. Lisa Muszynski undertook further revisions to this later version. I am deeply grateful to them all.